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Apollo 11 moon landing in Gazette headlines 50 years ago
Fifty years ago, man set foot on the moon. The Gazette chronicled the journey from start to finish the summer of 1969, from take off to the July 20 moon landing to the astronauts' return. Here are the front pages:
July 15, 1969
July 16, 1969
July 17, 1969
July 19, 1969
July 20, 1969
July 21, 1969
July 22, 1969
July 24, 1969
United States astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands beside a solar wind experiment next to the Lunar Module spacecraft on the surface of the Moon after he and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first men to land on the Moon during the Apollo 11 space mission July 20, 1969. (Photo: NASA)
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